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I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server (idiallo.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The one-liner:

dd if=/dev/zero bs=1G count=10 | gzip -c > 10GB.gz

This is brilliant.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There have been some attempts in that regard, I don’t remember the names of the projects, but there were one or two that’d basically generate a crapton of nonsense to do just that. No idea how well that works.